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TOMAS: I, Tomas, your teacher, am in attendance with you this evening as I am also in attendance with the many, myriad [[celestial hosts]] which hover around you and for you and with you, as well as a number of [[visitors]]. [[Paper 113|Your Paper]] [[study]] this evening has given you some indication, if you were but to calculate on your fingers and toes, how many personages [[surround]] even one [[devoted]] [[soldier of the circles]], and when we get you [[co-ordinated]] in one room, it is truly a big [[event]]. The air around you this evening is electric and jubilant in [[appreciation]] of your renewed application and devotion to our [[spirit]] family, our gathering together.

TOMAS: I, Tomas, your teacher, am in attendance with you this evening as I am also in attendance with the many, myriad [[celestial hosts]] which hover around you and for you and with you, as well as a number of [[visitors]]. [[Paper 113|Your Paper]] [[study]] this evening has given you some indication, if you were but to calculate on your fingers and toes, how many personages [[surround]] even one [[devoted]] [[soldier of the circles]], and when we get you [[co-ordinated]] in one room, it is truly a big [[event]]. The air around you this evening is electric and jubilant in [[appreciation]] of your renewed application and devotion to our [[spirit]] family, our gathering together.

In keeping with our format, I have another lesson in store for you this evening. Before I embark, however, I would like to take a [[moment]] and pause for your [[consideration]]. I have heard it remarked that we are working [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pell-mell pell mell], that Tomas is really piling it on, and so forth, and I do not want to shovel the coal so fast that the [[steam]] engine runs us all over. Indeed, I have many, many lessons, but I am not so bent on my [[formal]] [[agenda]] that I am unwilling to abide with you in your [[growing]] process. I will not lollygag overmuch, be advised, but if it is [[necessary]] that we slow down, I would like to hear it before I again commence. What say ye?

In keeping with our format, I have another lesson in store for you this evening. Before I embark, however, I would like to take a [[moment]] and pause for your [[consideration]]. I have heard it remarked that we are working [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pell-mell pell mell], that Tomas is really piling it on, and so forth, and I do not want to shovel the coal so fast that the [[steam]] engine runs us all over. Indeed, I have many, many lessons, but I am not so bent on my [[formal]] [[agenda]] that I am unwilling to abide with you in your [[growing]] process. I will not lollygag overmuch, be advised, but if it is [[necessary]] that we slow down, I would like to hear it before I again commence. What say ye?

Group: I think it's great. Full speed ahead!

Group: I think it's great. Full speed ahead!

As you live [[the gospel]], as you re-sound its [[harmonious]] toll in your life, in your [[voice]], in your [[actions]], in your [[attitudes]], you are [[preaching]] and [[teaching]] the gospel. In [[time]], you will have established yourself so that you may have [[intimate]] [[discourse]] with others. Praise [[God]], the living God. Make [[reference]] to those things that are familiar. Do not try to add boulders onto the shoulders of little ones who can only carry pebbles. [[Strengthen]] that in them that which is [[good]] and [[true]], and spoon feed them little pieces of [[divinity]]. Chew on them with your siblings.

As you live [[the gospel]], as you re-sound its [[harmonious]] toll in your life, in your [[voice]], in your [[actions]], in your [[attitudes]], you are [[preaching]] and [[teaching]] the gospel. In [[time]], you will have established yourself so that you may have [[intimate]] [[discourse]] with others. Praise [[God]], the living God. Make [[reference]] to those things that are familiar. Do not try to add boulders onto the shoulders of little ones who can only carry pebbles. [[Strengthen]] that in them that which is [[good]] and [[true]], and spoon feed them little pieces of [[divinity]]. Chew on them with your siblings.

[[Ponder]] them over, as if to say, "I heard this. I [[wonder]] what you think. What is your [[opinion]]?" Of course, you may get the [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oaf oaf] who looks at you dumbly and says something [[rude]], in which case you have lost no time moving along. But remember, you have established yourself in the life of this [[individual]] by setting aside --in [[unselfish]] [[devotion]] -- time to think about and [[pray]] for and [[ponder]] the welfare of this child of God before you. It is not a [[stranger]]. He is not a stranger if you have invested in him in [[prayer]].

[[Ponder]] them over, as if to say, "I heard this. I [[wonder]] what you think. What is your [[opinion]]?" Of course, you may get the [https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oaf oaf] who looks at you dumbly and says something [[rude]], in which case you have lost no time moving along. But remember, you have established yourself in the life of this [[individual]] by setting aside --in [[unselfish]] [[devotion]] -- time to think about and [[pray]] for and [[ponder]] the welfare of this child of God before you. It is not a [[stranger]]. He is not a stranger if you have invested in him in [[prayer]].

It is [[necessary]] to develop [[spiritual]] [[stamina]] if you are going to be active in the field, and since you are already active in the field, my girl, it is a simple matter of [[adapting]] your already excellent [[techniques]] to a broader range of [[circumference]] to broaden your arena, for your [[harmonious]] bell tolls clear, and as it tolls clearer from the height of [[truth, beauty, and goodness]], it will [[echo]] throughout the [[valley]] below. The [[Spirit of Truth]] will enable you to teach and [[preach]] gladly, and so [[fear]] not. I am [[eager]] also to greet others.

It is [[necessary]] to develop [[spiritual]] [[stamina]] if you are going to be active in the field, and since you are already active in the field, my girl, it is a simple matter of [[adapting]] your already excellent [[techniques]] to a broader range of [[circumference]] to broaden your arena, for your [[harmonious]] bell tolls clear, and as it tolls clearer from the height of [[truth, beauty, and goodness]], it will [[echo]] throughout the [[valley]] below. The [[Spirit of Truth]] will enable you to teach and [[preach]] gladly, and so [[fear]] not. I am [[eager]] also to greet others.

I was one of these [[fundamentalists]] myself, so I suppose I'm even much harder on them in my [[mind]], but I was in [[fear]] and I thought about that.

I was one of these [[fundamentalists]] myself, so I suppose I'm even much harder on them in my [[mind]], but I was in [[fear]] and I thought about that.

TOMAS: I am glad you told me. I am glad that you [[shared]] that with all of us. It is too bad that you hide your grand [[light]] under this bushel. It is unconscionable that a woman of your [[dynamism]] should so [[camouflage]] your own [[enlightenment]]. You were afraid that these people would find that you were an enlightened woman! and what? stone you? banish you from their [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven coven]?

TOMAS: I am glad you told me. I am glad that you [[shared]] that with all of us. It is too bad that you hide your grand [[light]] under this bushel. It is unconscionable that a woman of your [[dynamism]] should so [[camouflage]] your own [[enlightenment]]. You were afraid that these people would find that you were an enlightened woman! and what? stone you? banish you from their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coven coven]?

Elizabeth: They wouldn't let me do what I'm [[devoted]] to doing. It is a tiny slice of my life that I think of as being somewhat of a [[selfless]] [[devotion]]. I know that I can serve in a real way in that [[capacity]], but if I were to be totally frank, I would simply not be allowed to be in that capacity, and so I try to be [[honest]] in the sense that I'm not going to teach them anything that their [[parents]] would find troublesome, but I do want to not teach them these terribly [[negative]] things that I feel are full of misery words like "[[blood]]", "[[death]]", "[[crucifixion]]."

Elizabeth: They wouldn't let me do what I'm [[devoted]] to doing. It is a tiny slice of my life that I think of as being somewhat of a [[selfless]] [[devotion]]. I know that I can serve in a real way in that [[capacity]], but if I were to be totally frank, I would simply not be allowed to be in that capacity, and so I try to be [[honest]] in the sense that I'm not going to teach them anything that their [[parents]] would find troublesome, but I do want to not teach them these terribly [[negative]] things that I feel are full of misery words like "[[blood]]", "[[death]]", "[[crucifixion]]."

TOMAS: Whose answers are they?

TOMAS: Whose answers are they?

Elizabeth: This is the child's version of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism Heidelberg confession], and I have this in my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_school Sunday School] kit and I don't have to teach this. There's too much material there. They just say, "Pick out what you think of as helpful" and so I was planning to do this but I lost my cool because of my [[partner]] there, because she wanted them to learn one of these horrible [[memory]] verses. So, it was because I was in [[fear]]. That's probably what it was. And so I managed last year to get through the whole year and just saying the [[positive]] things, but because this woman is this [[fundamentalist]] beyond [[description]] . ...

Elizabeth: This is the child's version of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism Heidelberg confession], and I have this in my [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_school Sunday School] kit and I don't have to teach this. There's too much material there. They just say, "Pick out what you think of as helpful" and so I was planning to do this but I lost my cool because of my [[partner]] there, because she wanted them to learn one of these horrible [[memory]] verses. So, it was because I was in [[fear]]. That's probably what it was. And so I managed last year to get through the whole year and just saying the [[positive]] things, but because this woman is this [[fundamentalist]] beyond [[description]] . ...

TOMAS: Is it necessary that she hang with you constantly?

TOMAS: Is it necessary that she hang with you constantly?